Easiest way to open a text file and read it into an array with Perl

Question

Adding a standard Perl file open function to each script I have is a bit annoying:

sub openfile{
    (my $filename) = @_;
    open FILE,\"$filename\" or die          


        

Answer 1

I would recommend an object oriented approach that does not requires modules outside the CORE distribution and will work anywhere:

use strict;
use warnings;
use IO::File;
my $fh = IO::File->new("< $file");

foreach ($fh->getlines) {
    do_something($_);
}
$fh->close